Bay City man sentenced to five years in prison on abbestos removal charges

By the Midland Daily News

Updated 9:15 am, Tuesday, March 24, 2015

A 51-year-old Bay City man has been sentenced to five years in prison for illegal asbestos removal, U.S. Attorney’s Office reports.

Roy Bradley Sr. was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas L. Ludington to the prison term and to pay restitution to the workers.

Bradley was convicted by a jury in December of four felony charges relating to the improper removal and disposal of asbestos-containing material in violation of the Clean Air Act. Bradley was the general contractor on a demolition and renovation project in Bay City. The project involved converting a large church located at 400 N. Madison into a school now used by the Bay City Academy.

The jury found that substantial quantities of asbestos were improperly removed by Bradley’s workers during the renovation, and that Bradley failed to provide the workers with appropriate protective gear and caused the dry asbestos fibers to be released into the air.

In March, a different jury found Bradley guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States by evading taxes owed to the IRS for 2011.